Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean , a man somewhat flamboyant in dress and manner , not only a ladies ’ man but one of the most dedicated womanisers in the University ; a man who patently , almost on first sight , appeared self-centred and self-seeking . |
| 2 | So when he says no plan here , so it 's not only no plans in the day it filtered through |
| 3 | John of Salisbury 's comment that not only the towns but also the fortresses of Gaul feared Henry I of England was revealing of the new situation . |
| 4 | These criteria will include ‘ the material concomitants of the process of mental ‘ domestication ’ , for these are not only the manifestations of thought , invention , creativity , they also shape its future forms . |
| 5 | From our package , we could readily cover not only the proposals I have just described but also our anti-recession measures to kick-start the recovery . |
| 6 | If he is to be totally unbiased when making his observations , then he will be obliged to record not only the readings on various meters , the presence or absence of sparks at various critical locations in the electrical circuits , the dimensions of the circuit etc. but also the colour of the meters , the dimensions of the laboratory , the state of the weather , the size of his shoes and a whole host of ‘ clearly irrelevant ’ details , irrelevant , that is , to the kind of theory in which Hertz was interested and which he was testing . |
| 7 | Arguing against the project , the independent scholar Cesare d'Onofrio has pointed out that ‘ the proposed creation of an archaeological park would involve excavating down five to six metres below the present level and the creation of an immense basin stretching from the edge of Piazza Venezia and engulfing whole areas of the city up to the Porta Appia and beyond , embracing in its metal fences and walls not only the Forums , the Colosseum , the Domus Aurea , the Oppian and Coelian hills , the Circus Maximus etc. but , of necessity , a whole series of churches and medieval , Renaissance and baroque basilicas which would stand wrenched both from their historical context and from their place in the daily life of modern Rome ’ . |
| 8 | The School Development Plans Project ( SDPP ) broadens the basis of audit to include not only the aims and values of the school but also the policy and initiative of central government and the LEA . |
| 9 | It was not only the houses and buildings that were affected , there were also many cars and vans that had to stop their journeys and wait hoping the water start to drain away so they would be able to reach their destination . |
| 10 | Not only the acts of a rapist or batterer but his words too are experienced as terrifying and humiliating . |
| 11 | Kay ( 1988 ) , writing about WHO 's strategy , describes recent developments , current preventive programmes and recommended policies , and highlights not only the epidemics of HIV infection and of AIDS , but also the ‘ global epidemic of social , economic , political and cultural reaction and response to AIDS and HIV infection ’ . |
| 12 | With essential oils we have not only the material substance of the oil with its therapeutic properties , we also have the ethereal aroma , which , according to psychic healers , influences not only the emotions , but also the spiritual aspect . |
| 13 | It was not only the Tractarians who expressed their admiration . |
| 14 | It was not only the cops but the Black Maria as well . |
| 15 | The time budget … may record not only the activities themselves but the people with whom they were performed , and the location of activities . |
| 16 | She carried into the democratic era , not only the institutions , but the social habits and mentality of the oldest and toughest plutocracy in the world . |
| 17 | He also stressed , however , that " the unification of Germany concerns not only the Germans " . |
| 18 | The broader approach that we advocated covers not only sentence structure but also larger patterns of organisation , not only the forms of written academic English but also a range of stylistic and dialectal varieties , not only language structure but also meaning and use . |
| 19 | It is not only the soldiers who express in East German television programmes their outrage at the revelations of corruption of former political leaders . |
| 20 | It could also incorporate some features of the Weberian and Durkheimian traditions — and perhaps not only the ones which , as we have seen , have already been purloined by Marxism . |
| 21 | RARELY are mothers or fathers shown participating in a wide variety of domestic chores not only the ones traditional for their sex ; |
| 22 | Do boys and girls , fathers and mothers , participate in a wide variety of domestic chores , not only the ones traditional for their sex ? |
| 23 | It is in this last capacity that Hitler 's image as perceived by his loyal ‘ following ’ — functioning within the framework of ‘ charismatic politics ’ — played its crucial role , as not only the leaders of Party and State , but those in responsible intermediary positions — whether for ideological reasons or for a variety of careerist or other motives little related in essence to principled hatred of Jews — ‘ read ’ Hitler 's vaguely expressed ‘ intent ’ as a green light for radicalizing actions which developed their own dynamic and momentum . |
| 24 | This is a haven of verbal pleasure which the teacher evidently shares , as she relishes not only the sounds and meanings of the poems , but the feel of the words on her tongue and her palate . |
| 25 | But it was not only the women of England , with their crinolined frailties , who needed to be shielded from the details . |
| 26 | They are not only the products of communication but also part of its determining features ' ( ibid. p. 9 ) . |
| 27 | Thus the coastline receives not only the products of marine erosion but also the waste derived from subaerial erosion . |
| 28 | It forms a record of not only the resources allocated , but also those requested , and after a few months of operating the system the project leaders ' requests become realistic and they even strike agreements with each other on timing and amount of resources in advance of the meeting . |
| 29 | He wondered , in his Inverness passage , whether it was ‘ peculiar to the Scots to have attained the liberal , without the manual arts , to have excelled in ornamental knowledge , and to have wanted not only the elegancies , but the conveniences of common life ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ The rights deriving from the above-mentioned provisions of the Treaty include not only the rights of establishment and of participation in the capital of companies or firms but also the right to pursue an economic activity , as the case may be through a company , under the conditions laid down by the legislation of the country of establishment for its own nationals . |